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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Jonathan Swift

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired

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